IRSP: Free the Jailed Activists of the DHKP-C and Anti-Imperialist Camp

international | rights, freedoms and repression | press release Saturday April 17, 2004 11:00 by Peadar Baile - Irish Republican Socialist Party irsp at netwiz dot net 392 Falls Road, Belfast BT12 6DH 028 90 321024

The IRSP released a statement of solidarity with three Italian anti-imperialist activists, as well as with the DHKP-C activists whose earlier arrest they had been demonstrating against. The text is primarily comprised of that statement.

In response to the arrest of three Italian activists of the Anti-Imperialist Camp in Perugia, Italy, the IRSP released the following statement:

The International Department of the Irish Republican Socialist Party joins with revolutionaries around the globe in denouncing the arrest of Comrades of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) throughout Europe. The Irish Republican Socialist Party wish to express our solidarity with these Anatolian revolutionaries who have become the scapegoat of European imperialism in the wake of the bombings in Spain, as well as with the activists of the Anti-Imperialist Camp who have bravely defended them. We further condemn the arrests of three Italian members of the Anti-Imperialist Camp in Perugia.

We in the IRSP have long maintained comradely relations with the DHKP-C, who have set an example for revolutionaries around the globe by their courage and iron will in the face of adversity, repression, a death. Members of our movement have stood beside the members of the DHKP-C on death fast, and DHKP-C members have stood at the gravesides of the martyred hunger strikers of the Irish National Liberation Army. We have come together to speak out against the isolation of political prisoners and prisoners of war, especially those of the class war, in the past. We speak out again now in solidarity with them and in disgust over the imperialists of Europe using the pretext of their 'war on terrorism' to terrorise revolutionaries within the Turkish and Kurdish communities of Europe.

Regarding the arrests of three Italian members of the Anti-Imperialist Camp, the IRSP recognise that the comrades of the Anti-Imperialist Camp have been targeted by the Italian ruling class for their militant defense of the armed resistance to the US/British invasion and occupation of Iraq, as well as for their efforts to bring anti-imperialists from around the world into dialogue and collective action with one-another. We call upon revolutionary socialists and anti-imperialist activists worldwide to join in the defense of these activists and continue to support the efforts by the Anti-Imperialist Camp to forge stronger bonds of solidarity between revolutionary organisations throughout the world.

Anti-capitalists and anti-imperialists can no longer continue to accept such repression by the ruling class. The working class, in nations throughout the world, can no longer continue to prop up a capitalist system which is maintained through the left of their labour power and leaves them with only misery; a system in which useless parasites grow fat while working people starve by the hundreds of millions. Anti-capitalists and anti-imperialists must stand together now and demand an end to these witch-hunts, this repression, and this tyranny.